I do believe that's the first time in my life I've stayed up for more than 24 hours. A looong plane trip, a transfer, a few hour layover, then another plane trip from Seoul to Ulsan. We arrived at Ulsan around 9:30, and were met by three smiling University of Ulsan students, one of which is my new roomate, Jae-Eun Lee (pictures to come in a few hours when I buy a converter for my computer). After a sweeeet night's rest, we wake up in the morning to our first day at UoU!
Breakfast was palatable, and after breakfast we had our first Korean language class. I do believe I'm making progress, my name in Korean is: 커ㅣ 이 티. It's quite easy to remember :D 7-11 Ol El is the mnemonic I use. Productive class, then for lunch. A good many food items are too spicy for me, even for my quarter Mexican tongue. But I will survive it, and perhaps even lose some weight with all the things that I can't eat.
After lunch, we had our orientation, in which I met a LOT of neat people from all over the world -Morocco, Germany, China, Japan,- and even Arkansas. We all met each other, had a good time, then off to dinner at a deLICious pork place that featured a grill-your-own meat kind of thing. Mmm, I will go there again whenever I get a craving for some carne. A stroll through downtown after dinner and a bit of shopping, and my tired body called it quits for the night.
That was day one. I'm about to start day two :-) After I take a shower in the communal bathrooms.
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